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Discussion on: Linux VS Windows 10 - An Honest Comparison

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Mike Bybee • Edited

I can't speak to video creation, but I know quite a bit about audio - and anybody doing serious audio creation will find your section thereon far too dismissive of Windows.

As much as I love Linux, JACK is, while more flexible, seldom on par with ASIO on Windows performance-wise (at least on higher end cards that include its drivers, not cheap soundcards with ASIO4All if that's still a thing). Commercial Windows pro audio software (and even some free, like my beloved Jeskola Buzz) typically blows away Linux offerings. And neither are as good as MacOS (which, unbeknownst to many, has realtime audio by default at the OS level via CoreAudio).

With all of this said, I still prefer Linux because RT audio is so easy with even the cheapest of USB interfaces, and because free audio creation software was what got me into Linux in the first place (though I keep hoping to finally run Buzz without crashing in WineASIO, which would make the penguin all I ever need for making music).